Google and Mcafee have announced that they found a new global botnet consisting of potentially tens of thousands of compromised machines that is targeting Vietnamese users in the attempt to silence political activists. Neel Mehta from Google’s security team said that users got infected when they installed  trojans that were masquerading as legitimate Vietnamese keyboard drivers, used to allow Windows [...]

On their blog, Google posted information about an attack that targeted potentially tens of thousands of users who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software. The main payload of the malware was to spy and to participate in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against various blogs that containing political articles. One way to survive those DDOS attacks is to use our [...]

Google China – copyright AFP Google announced on Thursday ongoing talks with China regarding the future of Google in the Asian nation , after the company was decided to leave because of cyberattacks and state web censorship. “We are indeed in active discussions with the Chinese government but we are not going to engage in a running commentary about those [...]